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Cairo: As the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan approaches, Muslims in Egypt have to scale down preparations for the holiest month in the Islamic lunar...

BRUSSELS/GENEVA: More European nations have decided to tentatively relax restrictions with various requirements being introduced to the public. According...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani health officials playing a central role in the fight against COVID-19 feared of a sharp rise in the number of confirmed cases during...

Utter silence from the authorities in Pyongyang is fueling speculation surrounding the well-being of Kim Jong Un, the North Korean dictator. Media reports...

UNITED NATIONS: World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley on Tuesday warned of a hunger pandemic across the world in tandem with the...

SINGAPORE: Singapore will extend its COVID-19 "circuit breaker" period by four weeks to June 1 to stem the spread of the coronavirus, Prime...

WASHINGTON: The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States topped 800,000 on Tuesday with deaths surpassing 43,000, while Americans are increasingly...

Muscat: The British Minister of Health Matt Hancock has announced on Tuesday that clinical trials of a vaccine for COVID-19 will begin from Thursday. The...

Rio De Janeiro: Too high a dose of the antimalarial agent chloroquine can cause severe cardiac arrhythmia in certain patients. Tests on COVID-19 patients in...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that although the country is managing to slow the spread of COVID-19, its peak is yet to...